Quotes about nature
nature stuff vacuums
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. Tennessee Williams
nature animal people
It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed that the people who are completely out of touch with nature are the most afraid of death ... Temple Grandin
nature hate monopoly
Nature hates monopolies and exceptions. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature taken knowledge
Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature book knowledge
By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature morning stars
The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature knowledge communicate
We know more from nature than we can at will communicate. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature rays atoms
Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature kingdoms
Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature faithful faithfulness
Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature break
Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature drinking saint
Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature morning wrinkles
Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature travel doors
Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature science two
This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature wealth
Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature secret
Nature tells every secret once. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature breasts
Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature selfish people
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature character hair
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature asylums terror
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature saint odd
It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . . Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature fall color
Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature men dust
Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature essentials
Power is in nature the essential measure of right. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature white sugar
Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature deities saturated
Nature is saturated with Deity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature children boys
The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature bipolar negative
Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature men should
A man should carry nature in his head. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature mistake pardon
Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature mind made
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended. Ralph Waldo Emerson
nature given all-things
In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold. Ralph Waldo Emerson